TAP services?

[Douglas Tody]

Hi Markus -

With VAO finally starting up here in the US (work begins this fall)
we have TAP services in the works, and some work has been done,
but so far as I know we don't have any production services up yet.

 	- Doug


On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> Dear DAL folks,
>
> While building a service that harvests the TAP servers out there for
> their TAP schemata, I was sort of dismayed to notice that all the
> registries list in terms of TAP servers are some 20 DSA-based servers
> (well, some know mine as well).  That's particularly unfortunate
> since DSA so far doesn't support the TAP_SCHEMA...
>
> So -- what gives?  There are some TAP servers out there, no?  Is
> there any special reason why you haven't regeistred them?
>
> [Full disclosure: I'm going to run a conference ad on Sept 1x during
> which I'd like to upload one TAP service's output into another TAP
> service, and it would be cool if I had some choice as to the the
> first one, not to mention the wow factor with the audience if there
> are lots of TAP services showing up in VODesktop...]
>
>
> While I'm talking: I have yet another TAP implementation up at
> http://vo.uni-hd.de/tap which is supposed to be reasonably complete
> (including upload and some more esoteric features like preservation
> of the VOTable mime:-).
>
> Of course it's largely untested (if you don't count my own client
> library that's coming up soon, too), so I'd appreciate if you could
> pound it (or point me to its weaknesses in some more polite way).
>
> Though I still haven't made a real distribution, you'd make a humble
> VO citizen very happy if you'd consider the software behind that
> service for your site.  There's some docs at
> http://vo.uni-hd.de/odoc, and I promise to improve it as users show
> up.  And I'll try to help with the many warts the software still has,
> except I'll be on vacation the coming two weeks.
>
> Finally, other TAP implementors may be interested in
> http://svn.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/svn/gavo/python/trunk/gavo/resources/web/xsl/
> -- these are stylesheets for some TAP-related documents, inspired by
> what Astrogrid DSA has.  The intention is to have them in the public
> domain[1], and you'd be welcome to use them (and possibly extend them --
> for starters, there's no upload form yet, and some themeability would
> be nice).  The documents at http://vo.uni-hd.de/tap/async use these
> style sheets, if you want to preview.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>           Markus
>
> [1] Anyone that may have a claim on the idea or content: you wouldn't
> mind, would you?
>